The ghosts of Raydale Park . . .

A GAINST a backdrop of factories and billowing chimneys, hundreds of figures are depicted gathered around a pitch.

It is, we suppose, a Saturday afternoon in post-war Manchester; the men warming themselves with hot drinks and meat pies after a morning of graft, aligning themselves to one team or another and giving vent to their emotions free from the constraints of the workplace.

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